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Space Organisations

1 New NASA Missions to Study Venus

2 OSIRIS-Rex heads back Home with Asteroid Sample

3 Parker Solar Probe discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venusian Atmosphere

4 China’s Zhurong Rover Lands on the Red Planet

5 Solar Orbiter Captures First Coronal Mass Ejection

6 First-ever 'Space Hurricane' Detected over the North Pole

7 ISRO Makes Breakthrough Demonstration of Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Over 300 Metres

8 ISRO Develops Radar for Joint Earth Observation Satellite Mission with NASA

9 NASA’s Perseverance Mission

10 Tianwen-1: Chinese Mars Mission

11 Hope: UAE Mars Mission

12 NASA Approves Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth’s Aurora

13 CMS-01 Communication Satellite

14 Ariel Space Mission

15 Sentinel-6A Satellite

16 Earth Observation Satellite: EOS-01

17 NASA’s Sonification Project

18 Downsizing the Launcher

19 Mars Missions and Risk of Interplanetary Contamination

20 NASA’s Gateway Lunar Orbit Outpost

21 SpaceX Crew Dragon: A New Era in Space Exploration

22 Tianwen-1 Mission

23 ESA’s CHEOPS Sends First Image

24 ISRO Soon to Launch First Geo Imaging Satellite- GISAT-1

25 Indian Data Relay Satellite System

26 GSAT-30 Successfully Launched

27 ISRO Develops Crew Module Design

28 ISRO Successfully Launches Cartosat-3

29 NASA’s Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space

30 NASA Renames Ultima Thule

31 ISRO Successfully Launches RISAT-2BR1

32 ESA’s ClearSpace-1 Mission

33 TESS Finds 1st Earth-Sized Alien World

34 1st Molecule of the Universe Spotted

35 BepiColombo Ready to Take off to Mercury

36 The Cabinet Committee on Security Clears the Setting up of the DSRA

37 India to have its own Space Station

38 ISRO Launches Radar Imaging Observation Satellite RISAT-2B

39 ISRO Announces Seven Mega Missions

40 ISRO Inaugurates ‘Yuvika 2019’

41 Ultima Thule Image Revealed

42 Human Space Flight Centre

43 Young Scientist Programme

44 Microsat-R Launched Successfully

45 ISRO Developing Reusable Launch Technology

46 NASA's ICON Satellite Launches

47 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes a Year

48 NASA to Send Dragonfly Robot to Search for Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan

49 Chandrayaan 2 Launched

50 ISRO is Developing a Methane-Powered Rocket Engine

Defence

1 India to Boost Naval Capabilities

2 INS Vagir Commissioned into Indian Navy

3 ‘Pralay’ Ballistic Missile

4 Tejas Mark-2 Project

5 INS Vikrant: First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

6 Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile

7 Project WARDEC

8 DRDO Successfully Flight-tests ‘Pralay’

9 Indian Navy Gets Advanced Electronic Warfare System ‘Shakti’

10 DRDO Successfully Flight-tests Abhyas

11 China’s Hypersonic Missile Test

12 IAF gets Medium Range Surface to Air Missile System

13 Helina and Dhruvastra

14 Arjun Mark 1A Tanks

15 Software Defined Radios

16 Aatmanirbhar Defence Sector

17 Smart Anti Airfield Weapon

18 India Successfully Test-Fired New-generation Akash Missile

19 MR-SAM Tested Successfully

20 Varunastra

21 Sea Guardian Drones for Indian Navy

22 QRSAM Tested Successfully

23 Hybrid Smart Fence along LOC

24 SMART Test

25 Defence Expo 2020: Fostering Synergies in Defence Sector

26 DRDO Launches Young Scientists Laboratories

27 India Plans to Test-fire SLBM K-4

28 DRDO Conducts Successful Trials of BrahMos Missile

29 Pinaka Missile System Successfully Flight-Tested

30 Indian Navy Launches INS Imphal

31 India Set to Join Heavyweight Torpedo Club

32 India Successfully Test Fires Hypersonic Cruise Missile

33 India Tests ABHYAS

34 India Successfully Test-Fires “Pinaka”

35 Mission Shakti Accomplished

36 INS Arihant Completes India’s Nuclear Triad

37 Indigenous Gun Trials of the Army to Enter Next Stage

38 Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air missiles (QRSAM) Successfully Tested

39 DRDO Successfully Test Fires Indigenous Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile System

40 IAF Inducts Eight Apache Attack Helicopters

News Bytes

1 SpaceX to launch NASA’s ‘Europa Clipper Mission’

2 Indigenous Sensor to detect Arsenic Contamination

3 I-STEM enters Second Phase

4 AMLEX: The Oxygen Rationing Device

5 Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)

6 SERB and Intel India Launch ‘Fund for Industrial Research Engagement’ (FIRE)

7 Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG)

8 India’s 1st Reactor on PPP Model

9 National Technology Day

10 Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts Oxygen on Mars

11 DRDO Lab develops Antibody Detection Kit ‘DIPCOVAN’

12 Indian Astronomers Develop New Method to Identify Cluster Stars

13 Black Fungus Disease

14 Health Minister Named Chairman Of ‘Stop TB Partnership Board’

15 ISRO Launched Sounding Rocket RH-560

16 New Bacteria Found on ISS Named After Indian Scientist Ajmal Khan

17 DIU and TAFCOP

18 Fossil of Dickinsonia

19 Sandes: India’s New Instant Messaging Platform

20 ISRO Tests Satellite of Private Sector

21 FSSAI GMO Threshold

22 Lithium Deposits Inferred in Mandaya

23 Ease of Doing Science Index

24 Comet Killed the Dinosaurs: Study

25 Concentration of Small Black Holes

26 National Baseline Geoscience Data Generation Programmes (2020-2024)

27 FSSAI Cuts Down Limit for Trans-fat Levels in Foods

28 Whatsapp Privacy Policy

29 Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile

30 Google Threatens to Shut Services in Australia

31 Post COVID-19 Security Challenges

32 India to Export Akash Missile System

33 Tokamak Reactor: China's "Artificial Sun"

34 Himgiri: 1st Ship of Project 17A by GSRE Kolkata

35 Ransomware 2.0

36 Microwave Weapon

37 Dry Swab RT-PCR Test

38 nOPV 2 Vaccine

39 Crew 1 Mission

40 Extended Range Version of BrahMos Missile

41 Encrypted Online Message

42 10 Hafte 10 Baje 10 Min

43 Bio Fortification

44 Holographic Imaging Test

45 Nag-ATGM

46 COVID-19: Serial Interval

47 COVID-19 Mutation D614G

48 Real Mango

49 Graphene Mask

50 Asteroid 2020 QG

51 Eye in the sky: Ninja Drones to Protect Rail Assets

52 Student Entrepreneurship Programme 2.0

53 NEOWISE Comet: One of the Brightest Comets

54 BLUIS- Bhubaneshwar Land Use Intelligence System

55 CPT and Plasma Bank in New Delhi

56 Approval for Winter Diesel

57 Global Vaccine Summit

58 National AI Portal

59 Viroblock: Anti-viral Textile Technology

60 Captain Arjun

61 Malathion and Chlorpyrifos

62 Drugs for Fighting COVID-19

63 Fifth State of Matter in Space

64 Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

65 UV Disinfection Trolley

66 Government Guidelines on Temp & Humidity

67 Geofencing

68 Demo 2 Mission

69 Lithium Abundance in Interstellar Space & Red Giants

70 INST Designs Computer-based Nanomaterials

71 CSIR-CSIO Develops Electrostatic Disinfection Technology

72 DRDO Develops First Mobile Testing Lab for COVID-19

73 Unravelling the Bacterial Surface Architecture

74 COVID-19 Bio-banks

75 COVID-19 Indian National Supermodel

76 National Technology Day

77 CCMB Cultures SARS-CoV-2

78 MACS 4028: Biofortified Wheat Variety

79 DAC Approves Procurement of Tejas Mk1A for Indian Air Force

80 ICONSAT- 2020

81 Ikaria wariootia: The Ancestor of All Animals

82 Building a Comprehensive Human Single-cell Atlas

83 Henneguya salminicola: First Animal that doesn’t Need Oxygen to Live

84 Artificial Intelligence Based Module in Indian Schools

85 2020 CD3: Earth’s New Mini-moon

86 ISRO and IIA Sign Pact for Space Cooperation

87 National Science Day: Popularising Science

88 Oldest Material on Earth Discovered

89 The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Outbreak

90 NASA Unveils Maxwell

91 First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life

92 Relaunch of Anti-Rabies Vaccine

93 Kerala Cabinet Approves Fibre Optic Network

94 StrandHogg: Android’s Vulnerability

95 Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Legend

96 Quantum States Created in Everyday Electronics

97 Sarvatra: The Indigenous Bullet-proof Jacket

98 World’s First 5G Mobile Network

99 Israel’s Beresheet Mission Crashes on the Moon

100 Japan Space Agency Sends Impactor to Blast Asteroid

101 Indian Teams Win Awards at NASA Annual Rover Challenge

102 Homo Luzonensis: A New Human Relative

103 Stratolaunch Plane Completes First Test Flight

104 New State of Matter Discovered

105 Scientists Print 3D Heart

106 NASA Probe Detects Likely ‘Marsquake’

107 ICANN, NASSCOM Collaborate to Develop Technology, Standards for IoT

108 Strawberry Moon 2019

109 Shrinking Moon Generates Lunar Quakes

110 NASA’s DART to Collide with Asteroid in 2022

111 Jamia Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Thermometer

112 CRISPR anti-venom

113 Giant Asteroid Expected to Fly Close to the Earth

114 Scientists sequence Asiatic lion’s Genome for the first time

115 Kepler, 1st Exoplanet Spotted By NASA

116 China’s Long March Rocket Series Completes 300 launches

117 President Inaugurates Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

118 DRDO Chairman Wins Missile Systems Award

119 US Mathematician Becomes First Woman to Win Abel Prize

120 Supersonic Pulsar Discovered

121 The Table that Defines Chemistry Turns 150

122 ‘Inkjet’ Solar Panels Set to Reshape Green Energy

123 Japanese Space Probe Lands on Asteroid

124 SpaceX’s New Astronaut Capsule Docks on International Space Station

125 Asteroid Bennu

126 India Tests New Anti-Radiation Missile

127 New Planet Outside Solar System Discovered

128 150 years of Chemistry’s Periodic Table

129 UN Project to Pool Oceans of Data to Map Sea Floor

130 India’s First e-Waste Clinic

131 Saturn has the Highest Moons

132 Orionids Meteor Shower

133 The Gandhian Challenge Launched by AIM

134 Food Safety Mitra Scheme Launched

135 Cosmic Yeti Discovered

136 Elastocaloric Effect

137 Virgin Hyperloop One Signs an agreement to build a Hyperloop

138 ISRO lays the Foundation Stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre

139 NASA Takes First High-Resolution Measurements of Interplanetary Shock

140 India’s 1st Large-Scale Trial of Two New TB Vaccines Launched

141 GJ 357 d: NASA’s TESS Discovers 1st Nearby Super-Earth

142 Government Clears ITMS for Mumbai

143 Government to launch Genome India Initiative

144 TOI 270: New Planetary System

145 Artificial Gravity Designed

146 Deepfake: A new Cause of Worry in AI

147 Ploonet: A New Word in Scientific Community

148 Falcon Heavy Spacecraft Launched

149 India Signs Anti-Tank Missile Deal with Russia

150 First Ever Mobile Science Exhibition Van Flagged Off in Leh

151 Shodh Shuddhi: Fight Against Plagiarism

152 K2-18b: Does the Planet Support Life?

153 Quantum Supremacy

154 India’s Longest Electrified Rail Tunnel inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh

155 Survey of India to Deploy 300 Drones for Mapping the Country

156 Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research Launched

157 ISRO, DRDO sign MoUs to Provide Technologies for Human Space Mission

158 Telangana Government Declares 2020 as Artificial Intelligence Year

Bio Science

1 Scientists identify Live Immune Cells in Coral and Sea Anemone

2 BBX32: A Protein that helps in Plant Growth Regulation

3 mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19

4 Desalination: A Panacea for Water Scarcity

5 3D Printed Nasal Swab

6 FSSAI Bans Mixing of Edible Oil in Mustard Oil

7 UCPMP Not Mandatory for Pharma Companies

8 NCRP Report 2020: Cancer Cases to Rise by 12% by 2025

9 Trans-fats must Go from IndianFoods by 2022: Experts

10 Delhi’s Serological Survey

11 China Publishes Coronavirus Genome Data

12 Indian Initiative on Earth Bio Genome Sequencing (IIEBS)

13 New Insights on Improving Immunotherapy for Cancer

14 Directed Protein Evolution

15 IIT-Guwahati’s Trojan Peptides to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

16 Xenobots: World’s First Living Robots

17 3D Bioprinting: A Medical Marvel

18 China’s Approach to Treat Alzhiemer’s

19 CRISPR Takes First Steps to Fight Cancer

20 AWaRe- A WHO Tool for Safer Use of Antibiotics

21 Serotonin May Help Treat Neurological Decline

22 Singapore Reports the First Ever Case of the Monkeypox Virus

23 West Nile Virus in Kerala

24 India to Study Human Microbiome

25 An Algorithm to Detect Rare Cells

26 National Digital Health Blueprint Report Completed

27 World’s First Plant-Powered Camera Takes World’s First Plant-Powered Selfie

28 Malaria and Dengue are Notifiable Diseases

29 Chandipura Virus Detected in Gujarat

30 Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo Declared as a Global Health Emergency

31 India Joins the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub

Achievements Of Indians In Science & Technology

1 Engineer’s Day: Sir Visvesvaraya’s Contribution to Nation Building

Astronomy

1 Rare merger of Three Supermassive Black Holes Detected

2 Chandrayaan 2 detects Hydroxyl and Water Molecules on Moon

3 Moon-forming Region observed around Exoplanet PDS 70c

4 New Insights into Star Formation Process in the Milky Way

5 Understanding Heavy Metal Abundance in CEMP Stars

6 PASIPHAE Sky Survey Project

7 New Research Points to Possibility of Life on Jupiter

8 Chandrayaan-2 Solar X-ray Monitor Unravels Mysteries of the Solar Corona

9 Study Sheds New Light on Big Bang Theory

10 New Study on 3-D Distribution of Molecular and Atomic Hydrogen in Andromeda Galaxy

11 Evolution of the Milky Way: New Insights

12 The Most Distant Known Quasar With A Bright Radio Emission Discovered

13 Martian ‘blueberries’ Find a Parallel on Earth

14 Baikal-GVD Underwater Neutrino Telescope Launched

15 Square Kilometre Array Observatory Project

16 Neutrinos and Death of Massive Stars

17 Stardust 1.0: Rocket to Run on Biofuel

18 Missing Supermassive Black Hole at Centre of Distant Galaxy Baffles Scientists

19 AstroSat Helps Spot UV Stars in Milky Way’s Cosmic Dinosaur

20 Astronomers Detect 10- Billion Year Old Multiplanet System

21 Theia 456 is a Stretched Out Stream of Sibling Stars: Study

22 Jupiter-Saturn Great Conjunction: Christmas Star

23 Change-5 Lunar Mission

24 Hayabusa 2: Samples from Asteroid Ryugu

25 OSIRIS-REx and Asteroid Bennu

26 Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

27 Discovery of Phosphine Gas: Life on Venus?

28 Solar Cycle 25

29 Himalayan Chandra Telescope

30 ASTROSAT DetectsOne of the Earliest Galaxies

31 Dwarf Planet Ceres Is an Ocean World: NASA

32 Production of Lithium in Star

33 Black Hole Merger: Mystery Object in Mass Gap

34 Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA):163348 (2002 NN4)

35 Exoplanet Kepler-1649c Discovered

36 Deciphering How the Universe Got its Structure

37 Mystery of Saturn’s Hot Upper Atmosphere Solved

38 Cloud Atlas for Exoplanets

39 New Model Explains Growth of Black Holes

40 New Super-Earth Discovered

41 VLT Captures Signs of Planet Birth

42 WASP-76 b: The Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron

43 HD74423: The Star That Pulsates on One Side

44 Milky Way’s Edge Discovered

45 Biggest Explosion Since Big Bang Detected

46 ESA-NASA Launch Solar Orbiter Mission

47 Aditya-L1: India’s First Solar Mission

48 NASA’s TESS Discovers Exoplanet TOI 700 d

49 Giant Planet Orbiting a White Dwarf Discovered

50 Giant Black Hole LB-1 Discovered

51 Liquid Methane spotted on Titan-Moon of Saturn

52 Black Hole ‘Powehi’

53 Brain of SKA Designed

54 Scientists Calculate Mass of Milky Way Galaxy

55 Ultraviolet Stars Identified in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808

56 Solar Tsunami Can Trigger the Sunspot Cycle

57 Earth and Mars will Pause Chatter

58 Gravitational Lensing to Investigate ‘How Stars are Born’

59 Perseid Meteor Shower Lights Sky across the World

60 Tardigrade: The water bear

61 Sagittarius A*: A Black hole at the Centre of the Milky Way

62 Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment (AIDA) Meeting Held at Rome

In Focus

1 Draft Battery Swapping Policy for Electric Vehicles

2 Artemis I Mission

3 National Strategy on Additive Manufacturing

4 Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Report

5 Parker Solar Probe Touches the Sun

6 Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission

7 Indian Space Association (ISpA)

8 Two Years of Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter

9 Major Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Achieved

10 Human Genome Editing: WHO’s New Recommendations

11 CAR T-cell Therapy: Heralding a New Era in Cancer Treatment

12 Protein-Antibody Conjugates (PACs): A Major Breakthrough in Cancer Research

13 Genome Mapping in Indian Ocean

14 Liberalized Rules on Geospatial Data

15 Green Hydrogen: Fuel of the Hour

16 Bird Flu Outbreak in India

17 Unregulated Use of Facial Recognition Systems

18 First Observation of Fast Radio Burst in Galaxy

19 Noble Prize in Medicine

20 Noble Prize in Chemistry

21 Noble Prize in Physics

22 National Sero Survey 2.0

23 Impending Threat from Sunspot Activity&Solar Flares

24 Covaxin: Indigenous Vaccine for COVID-19

25 Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre: IN-SPACe

26 First Merger of Unequal-mass Binary Black Holes

27 NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission

28 India Hops on Quantum Supremacy Bandwagon with NM-QTA

29 New T-cell Discovered: Universal Cancer Therapy in the Offing?

30 IndiGen Project: Sequencing Indian Genes

31 A Breakthrough Against Antimicrobial Resistance

32 Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine under Test

33 Maharashtra Farmers Defy Ban to Plant GM Cotton

34 NASA’s Artemis

35 China to Complete Artificial Sun Device This Year

36 PM-STIAC Identifies Nine Missions

37 Current Affairs Questions

38 The Mystery of Moving North Pole

39 Scientists Discover Massive Mountains under Earth’s Crust

40 2019 Nobel Prizes in Sciences

41 India’s Deep Ocean Mission

42 PRETOMANID: New Drug for Drug-Resistant TB

43 Space Race 2.0: Creating Debris

44 Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR)

News Snippets

1 Japan's Ogasawara Island

2 E Prime Layer

3 International Space Station

4 Sagittarius C

5 High-Energy Particle “Amaterasu”

6 Iron Dome

7 Bright Transient Survey Bot (BTSbot)

8 ImmunoACT

9 Vikram-I

10 BlueWalker 3

11 X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat)

12 Orionid Meteor Shower

13 Hyades Cluster

14 Largest Time-Domain Survey Telescope

15 Vanadium

16 Zealandia

17 Maisie’s Galaxy

18 QakBot Malware Network

19 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

20 Code Llama

21 Genetic Puzzle of Y Chromosome

22 Agnibaan SOrTeD

23 Ophidascaris robertsi

24 WorldCoin

25 Cosmic Rays and Earth's Defence

26 Fediverse

27 World's First Methane-Fuelled Space Rocket

28 Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever

29 Osteo HRNet

30 Donanemab

31 Lisa

32 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

33 Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA)

34 Dimethyl Ether (DME)-fueled Engine

35 Cholederm

36 Neurotech Devices

37 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Technology

38 Centralized Laboratory Network (CLN)

39 TOI 4603b

40 LUPEX Mission

41 Foucault Pendulum

42 AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’

43 New Uranium Isotope

44 India’s 1st 3D Printed Post Office

45 PSLV-C55/TeLEOS-2 Mission

46 Candida auris

47 International Liquid Mirror Telescope

48 Biotransformation Technology

49 Plastiglomerate

50 Israel’s Sniffing Robot

51 CCR5 Mutation

52 Automatic Train Supervision

53 ALMA

54 Organ on a Chip

55 Mad Cow Disease

56 Bendable Concrete

57 Immune Imprinting

58 BharOS

59 Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC)

60 Doppler Weather Radar

61 Phonons

62 ChatGPT

63 SLYM

64 Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind survey (WALLABY)

65 Deep-tech Startups

66 Incovacc

67 Gelbots

68 Ruthenium−Ferrocene Bimetallic Agent

69 OpenAI’s ChatGPT

70 Mycobacterium leprae

71 mpox

72 Zombie Virus

73 Smart Contracts

74 Cordy Gold Nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)

75 AMR Salmonella

76 Glyphosate

77 China’s Mengtian Module

78 Fungal Priority Pathogens List

79 Einstein Ring

80 NASA’s Sonification Project

81 NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation)

82 CSA6

83 Facial Recognition Technology

84 Cloud Seeding

85 Standalone and Non-standalone 5G Networks

86 Forever Chemicals

87 Bisphenol A (BPA)

88 SUMO Protein

89 IS4OM

90 Gaganyaan Abort Mission

91 VFTS 243

92 Google Street View

93 GEMCOVAC-19

94 Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

95 Black Death

96 Surya Nutan

97 GSAT-24 Satellite

98 Psyche Mission

99 Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN)

100 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

101 Retinoblastoma

102 BioRRAP

103 Buffalopox

104 Cherenkov Radiation

105 Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet

106 Micro-swimmers for Drug Delivery

107 InTranSE -II Program

108 Sarmat

109 Self-amplifying mRNA Vaccine

110 Indigenous Air Traffic Management Systems

111 Australia’s Defence Space Command Agency

112 ExoMars 2022

113 Gallium Nitride (GaN)

114 GSAT-7B Satellite

115 PACER Scheme

116 Synthetic Biology

117 Solar Proton Events

118 Origami Metamaterials

119 Indian Neutrino Observatory Project

120 China’s Artificial Moon

121 Vikas Engine

122 Log4 Shell

123 Controlled Aerial Delivery System (CADS)

124 Paxlovid

125 Pinaka-ER

126 Neurocysticercosis (NCC)

127 41st Scientific Expedition to Antarctica

128 Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine

129 SWADESH

130 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW)

131 HeLa Cells

132 DLX1 Protein

133 Nebra Sky Disc

134 Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP)

135 Microflier

136 ATL Space Challenge

137 LCA-Mk2

138 Saline Gargle RT-PCR Technology

139 IADS

140 ‘Nauka’

141 News Snippets

142 NEWS SNIPPETS

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Space Science

1 Discovery of Water on Asteroids

2 Solar Activity Ramping Up as Sun Approaches Solar Maximum

3 NASA's PACE Satellite: A New Era of Earth Observation

4 DRDO's Green Propulsion System Aces In-Orbit Test

5 India to Send Woman Robot Astronaut 'Vyommitra' to Space

6 ISRO Human-Rates CE-20 Rocket Engine for Gaganyaan Mission

7 ISRO Successfully Launches INSAT-3DS Weather Satellite

8 ISRO Successfully Tests Fuel Cell Power System in Orbital Platform

9 India Officially Joins SKA Project

10 NASA Restores Contact with Mars Helicopter Ingenuity

11 China Launches Einstein Probe to Explore Celestial Fireworks

12 ISRO's POEM-3 Achieves Payload Objectives

13 NASA Relaunches Spacecraft OSIRIS-APEx to Study Apophis

14 Saturn's Moon Enceladus Holds Hydrogen Cyanide

15 Japan's SLIM 'Moon Sniper' Achieves Lunar Orbit

16 XPoSat: India's First Dedicated Polarimetry Mission

17 Saturn's Rings to Temporarily Vanish in 2025

18 NASA's AWE Mission to Decode Mysteries of Space Weather Drivers

19 NISAR Completes Successful Thermal Vacuum Test

20 Ladakh Set to become South East Asia's Inaugural Night Sky Sanctuary

21 Indian Scientists Detect Radiation from Extragalactic Black Hole

22 Discovery of Bright Gamma-Ray Burst Resulting from Neutron Star Merger

23 JWST Discovers High-Speed Jet Stream on Jupiter

24 Moon Found to be 40 Million Years Older than Previously Believed

25 ISRO Successfully Launches Test Vehicle for Crew Safety in Gaganyaan Mission

26 NASA Launches Psyche Mission

27 NASA's MOXIE Completes Mars Mission

28 Japan launches Rocket to Explore Universe's Origins

29 NASA's Lucy Spacecraft captures First Images of Asteroid Dinkinesh

30 IN-SPACe unveils 'Catalogue of Indian Standards for Space Industry'

31 Einstein Cross Reveals Distant Galaxies via Gravitational Lensing

32 James Webb Telescope Detects Carbon Dioxide on Europa's Surface

33 NASA's OSIRIS-REx Becomes OSIRIS-APEX for Asteroid Apophis Mission

34 ISRO Successfully Tests CE20 Engine for Gaganyaan Mission

35 Luna-25 Crashes on Moon

36 ISRO Rocket Debris Found on Australian Shores

37 Perseid Meteor Shower Enchants Skywatchers

38 Aditya-L1 Mission Successfully Launched

39 Euclid Space Telescope to Explore 'Dark Universe'

40 OneWeb to Establish First Satellite Network Portal Site in Gujarat

41 Scientists Detect Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves

42 ISRO’s PSLV-C56/DS-SAR Mission

43 Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

44 New Study on Pulsars

45 Star Engulfs Jupiter-Sized Planet

46 Origins of Fast Radio Bursts

47 India Captures Rare Aurora Lights for the First Time

48 BL Lacertae

49 ISRO Launches NVS-01 Satellite

50 LIGO-India: An Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detector

51 Detailed Map of Dark Matter

52 ESA’s Juice Mission

53 NASA’s TEMPO Instrument

54 ISRO Tests Reusable Launch Vehicle

55 Controlled Re-entry Experiment of Megha-Tropiques-1

56 Evidence of Active Volcano on Venus

57 LVM3-M3/OneWeb India-2 Mission

58 New Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars

59 NISAR Mission

60 JWST Spots Six Monster Galaxies

61 Chandrayaan-3 Lander Completes EMI-EMC Test

62 SSLV-D2/EOS-07 Mission

63 Japan’s IGS-Radar 7 Reconnaissance Satellite

64 Milky Way Galaxy's Most-distant Stars

65 Webb Detects New Exoplanet

66 HAKUTO-R Mission

67 SWOT Mission to Survey Earth’s Water

68 JWST Provides Details of Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

69 Mission Prarambh

70 PSLV-C54/EOS-06 Mission

71 China’s Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory

72 NASA’s New Earth Space Mission Maps Methane ‘Super-Emitters’

73 Pillars of Creation

74 LVM3 M2 / OneWeb India-1 Mission

75 DART Spacecraft Successfully Crashes into Asteroid Dimorphos

76 India's First Commercial SSA Observatory

77 Multispectral Maps of Mars

78 Scientists Detect New Fast Radio Burst

79 International Liquid-Mirror Telescope

80 PSLV-C53/DS-EO Mission

81 New Insight into Evolution of Galaxies

82 ISRO Successfully Tests HS200 Solid Rocket Booster

83 InSight Mars Lander Detects Largest Marsquake

84 EHT Reveals First Image of Sagittarius A*

85 Scientists Detect the Most Distant Astronomical Object Ever

86 Study on Blue Stragglers

87 New Research on Jupiter’s Moon Europa

88 The Science behind Solar Spicules

89 NASA Confirms 5000 Exoplanets

90 Chandrayaan-2 Observes Global Distribution of Argon-40 in Lunar Exosphere

91 GMRT Reveals Fast Radio Bursts

92 Study Sheds New Light on Pluto’s Atmospheric Pressure

93 HelioSwarm and MUSE: New Sun Missions

94 ISRO Launches EOS-04 and Two Other Satellites

95 Webb Space Telescope Reaches Destination

96 Curiosity Rover Detects Carbon Signatures on Mars

97 Chang’e 5 Finds First On-Site Evidence of Water on Moon

98 India to Launch SSLV in April 2022

99 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Discovers Water in Mars’ Valles Marineris Canyon

100 NASA’s LCRD Communication System

101 James Webb Space Telescope Launched

102 NASA’s IXPE Mission

103 Study of Distant Magnetar Gives Clues about Exotic Star

104 Indian Astronomers Discover New Exoplanet

105 ESA’s Matosinhos Manifesto

106 New Black Hole Discovered Outside the Milky Way

107 Perseverance Sheds New Light on Jezero Crater

108 A Preview of the Solar System’s Afterlife

109 White Dwarf 'Switch On and Off': A Unique Phenomenon

110 NASA’s Lucy Mission to Explore Trojan Asteroids

111 Early-stage Findings of the Chang’e-5 Lunar Mission

112 Inspiration4 Mission: Heralding a New Era in Space Tourism

113 NASA’s VIPER to Land on Moon’s Nobile Crater

114 New Study on Solar Magnetic Field

115 New Geo-spatial Applications Launched

116 Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC)

117 Japan to Bring Back Soil Sample from Phobos

118 EscaPADE Mission

119 ‘NEA Scout’: NASA’s Solar Sail Asteroid Mission

120 InSight Mission reveals Mars’ Deep Interior

121 Shenzhou-12 Manned Mission: Astronauts Dock with Space Station

122 ESA’s EnVision Mission

New Technology & Innovations

1 RRI's Breakthrough: Improved Imaging of Cold Atoms

2 Chemists Synthesize Unique Fluorine Compound

3 Innovative ORAN Base Stations to Democratize Connectivity

4 India's First Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility Established

5 Novel Sodium-Catalyzed Method for Carbon Nanotube Synthesis

6 Tricholime: IISR's Breakthrough in Crop Care

7 Heat-Tolerant COVID-19 Vaccine

8 New Alloy Revolutionizing Magnetic Refrigeration

9 AKTOCYTE: A Revolutionary Nutraceutical for Cancer Care

10 Kakrapar Atomic Power Project's Fourth Unit Achieves Criticality

11 New Formaldehyde Sensor Detects Adulterated Fish

12 Barracuda: India's Fastest Solar-Electric Boat Sets Sail

13 DeepMind's GNoME Unveils Structures of Two Million New Materials

14 Indian Scientists Develop Lead-Free Perovskite Photodetector

15 India's NexCAR19 CAR-T Cell Therapy Receives Market Authorization

16 Revolutionary CO2 to CO Technology for Carbon Capture in Steel Sector

17 Rare Metal Tantalum Discovered in Sutlej River

18 2D Protein Monolayer Unveils Insights into Amyloidosis

19 China Constructing Underwater Telescope to Detect Ghost Particles

20 BIS Approves Indigenous AC/DC Charging Standard for Light Electric Vehicles

21 Niobobaotite Ore Discovered in Inner Mongolia

22 Google's DeepMind AI Predicts Disease-Causing Genetic Mutations

23 Hybrid Nanoparticles for Cancer Detection and Treatment

24 String-Based Technology to Revolutionize Lithium Production

25 Scientists Witness Antimatter Particles Falling due to Gravity

26 Muon's Peculiar Wobble Hints at Physics Mystery

27 Acoustic Side Channel Attacks

28 India's First Indigenously Developed MRI Scanner

29 CSIR-CRRI Pioneers World's Latest Steel Road Technology

30 India's Scientists Develop Stable Perovskite Cells

31 X-ray of a Single Atom

32 High Frequency Radio Communications

33 AI-Driven Discovery of Abaucin

34 New Technology for Textile Wastewater Treatment

35 Electrolyzing Seawater for Hydrogen Generation

36 Calcium-41 for Radiometric Dating

37 Next-Generation Na-Ion Batteries

38 Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy

39 ASTR for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification

40 Scientists Fabricate Protein to Aid Study of Multiple Sclerosis

41 Laser Carbon: A Carbon-based Catalyst

42 Starberry-Sense

43 Laccase

44 Potential of Organoid Intelligence to Create Biocomputers

45 Indole-based Novel Molecule as Preventive against COVID Variants

46 First Flue Gas Desulphurization Plant in South India

47 Sun-powered Reactor to Convert Plastic and CO2 into Fuel

48 New Material to Remove Water Pollutants

49 New Artificial Nanostructures for Infrared Absorption Technologies

50 New Gene Therapy for Cancer Treatment

51 Photonic Crystal

52 Semi-confined Unreinforced Brick Masonry

53 New Plastic Upcycling Technology

54 India’s First Avalanche Monitoring Radar

55 Anti-Radiation Pills

56 Cervavac: First indigenously developed Human Papillomavirus Vaccine

57 India’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Launched

58 Perovskite Solar Cells

59 Antimicrobial Coating from Agricultural Waste

60 Sodium-ion Battery Technology

61 Novel Mechanism to Inactivate SARS-CoV-2

62 Major Breakthrough in Cancer Treatment

63 Artificial Photosynthesis

64 Ultra-thin Heteroprotein Films

65 New Biomaterial Helps Heal Wounds

66 Indigenous Potential mRNA Vaccine against COVID

67 Space Bricks

68 Plasma-based Green Disinfectant

69 Solid Adsorbents for CO2 Capture and Utilisation

70 MES Constructs Houses Using 3D Printing Technology

71 New Method of Hydrogen Production by Urea Electrolysis

72 Scientists Develop Novel Nanoparticles for Crop Protection

73 AI-based Algorithm to Detect Habitable Planets

74 Novel Tool to Understand Long-Term Memory Consolidation

75 Scientists Develop New Microscopy Technology

76 Scientists Build DNA Nanoantenna

77 Earth’s Black Box

78 5G Launch in India

79 Silver Nanomaterials as Antimicrobial Agents

80 New Algorithm Increases Accuracy of Data from Exoplanets

81 Security Ink Based on Nano-materials to Combat Counterfeiting

82 Novel Computational Model to Detect ‘Change Blindness’

83 NIIST Indigenously Develops LTCC Tapes and HTCC Substrates
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